Housing Need, Allocations & External Influence
Received: 8 September 2025
1. Statutory Basis for TargetsPlease identify the specific statutory provision or regulation that requires this council to meet a housing need target that includes applicants who have not lived or worked in the area for 5+ years.2. Local Connection in AllocationsPlease provide the full text of any legislation, statutory instrument, or ministerial direction that permits the council to disregard local connection when prioritising housing allocation.3. Evidence of Local Housing ShortagePlease confirm whether the council holds any recorded, independent evidence-based studies, excluding national statistics, local population figures, or general demographic data that demonstrates a locally specific shortage of housing in this authority's area over the last 10 years.If such studies exist, please provide copies in full.If no such locally commissioned or held studies exist, please confirm this explicitly.4. Equality & Human Rights ImpactPlease provide any Equality Act 2010 or Human Rights Act 1998 impact assessment that has been undertaken regarding the allocation of housing to non-local applicants.5. External Influence & AdvicePlease provide a list of all external bodies, organisations, companies, panels, consultants, stakeholder groups, advisory boards, or networks, whether formally contracted or informally engaged, that have provided advice, lobbying, data, or policy material on housing allocation or housing targets since 2015.Please provide copies of all correspondence, meeting minutes, reports, or other recorded material supplied by these bodies.Refugee & Resettlement Allocations6. Please provide the total number of individuals and households allocated housing in this authority under any refugee resettlement, asylum dispersal, or humanitarian protection scheme since 2015, broken down by year and scheme name.7. Please identify the source of funding for each scheme listed in Q6.8. Please provide copies of any agreements, contracts, memoranda of understanding, or other recorded arrangements between the council and private developers, housing associations, or investors for the provision or leasing of properties under the schemes listed in Q6.9. If no such agreements or records exist, please confirm this explicitly.Empty Properties & Re-use Strategies10. Please provide the total number of residential properties recorded as empty within the council's area for each of the past 10 years, broken down by classification, for example, short-term vacant, long-term vacant, second homes, uninhabitable premises and any other classification that has been applied in this context.11. Please provide any recorded strategies, action plans, or programmes held by the council to bring empty homes back into use, together with the data or evidence used in each year to determine the local housing need those strategies were intended to address.12. If no such strategies, programmes, or supporting data exist, please confirm this explicitly.
Outcome / Documents
- Response (some not held) - application/pdf - Download